everyone should stop out at the Wadsworth Target tomorrow nite for VIG.  open from 6-10, i believe.

so freakin weird that the store is opening.  crazy weird, really.  i mean, for the past month and a half or so we've all been working there and its our store--its not for the public.  thats what it feels like anyway.

the past week-ish i've been training for starbucks which has been a bit hectic.  i'm don't really feel ready so i'm hoping that i get some more time to "practice" before i have to take my test to get certified.  scary.  my team lead will ask me to make 8 different drinks or something like that and i will have to mark the cup, call it out, then make it.  supposed to have "guests" in & out in 3 minutes or less so that should be..uh...interesting.  legendary service.  right.

its been fun tho because our lil group has gotten to know one another fairly well--between carpooling up to north olmsted target 3 of the 5 days of our training and actually hanging out making & testing starbux drinks...and almost dying on the way back last nite...yeah.  good times ;o)

fun minus tonite anyway before taking off when we all got our schedules for next week.  they blow chunks, basically.  mike & i are not scheduled at all for starbucks and andres, chris and derek are scheduled one day each, i think for starbucks.  the rest of the time we'll be either on sales floor or cashier.  we were all pretty pissed off.  spent the 45 minute drive to north olm. complaining and going on about it, then the first few at the store rehashing it for Tracie, the team lead there who has been training us. 

other than that...life has been mostly good.  just trying to stay on top of school crap and get a decent chunk of sleep here & there when i'm not out procrastinating. 

busy busy but thats ok.

i had a long talk with a good friend tonite and it made me think about a lot of things...

first of all, 5 years ago i would have never pictured myself as i am now. 

second, i've not had the best experiences with certain relationships and i'm prolly largely to blame.

third, to a person who may not read this at all anymore--i'm sorry for how things turned out.  i'm sorry for the way i reacted...or perhaps for the lack of a reaction.  i don't know if things will ever go back to "normal"...whatever that is for us...but, if you are reading this......i am sorry.

forth, family isn't necessarily blood.  it can be...but a lot of the time, its just the people are there for you--thru it all.

and finally, i don't know where my life is going or how it will all end up but for now, i think i'm ok. 

kat is home from arizona for a week   

last nite the two of us & erica went to Ni's Dynasty Super Buffet.  for some reason i was all up for trying new things which made for a v. interesting evening. 

sushi (mostly really great), duck (not my thing), squid (looked like an onion ring but def. did not taste like one), a few unidentified things and mussel.

the mussel did not go down well.

i had a few serious gag reflexes and by the time i was actually able to swallow it, i had tears all down my face.

i brought home the shell as a souvenir tho because, let me tell you--unless by cicumstances beyond my control, i will never put one of those things in my mouth again. 

i haven't been writing a lot or often here but neither has anyone else.  what happened?  everyone else get suddenly crazy-busy tambien?

yeah. 

been pretty busy.

work is mostly good.

school is usually mostly good.

i feel a little out of the loop, though.